Ants

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My “safe for space travel” blue ant farm is alive and kicking only sadly, I’m still waiting for actual crawly ants to arrive in the mail. But the software is ready: a Processing app saves an image of the ants every 5 seconds (which i hope to dump in some uber ant farm timelapse video) as well as uploads the live image to a web server every 30 seconds.

next step: real-time ant motion tracking?

live ant farm (with no ants, yawn) image

  • http://www.whatspop.com Kunal

    Daniel – this is an awesome idea. Do you really need to use Processing to capture an image? Couldn’t you use a freeware program to do the heavy lifting of capturing/uploading an image? Now that I think about it, it just sounds cool to do this in Processing.

    It would be neat if you could somehow isolate each ant as a node and then plot it’s traveled path. I guess you have a cartesian plane, created by the blue light. I’m curious to see if you can learn more about behavior or extract their physical behavior for software algorithms.

  • nikolas

    is it up and running yet?

    Would loe to see the results!!

  • snedal

    its realy a great picture.
    and does it servive in for more than 3 hours in?

    i have heared that ants have a queen and have pet of green colour that gives milk to there young babies
    is it true?

  • lino

    Helio i a queen harvesrte ant in my ant farm to be she laid about 15 eggs waiting for them to hatch

  • will

    where did u get your queen ant as i cannot find any online